Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Screencasts on Chromebooks
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Screencasts on Chromebooks

As I’ve written many times over the years, Screencast-o-Matic is my favorite tool for creating screencast videos on Mac and Windows computers. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on Chromebooks. In the past my go-to recommendation for screencasting on Chromebooks was SnagIt for Chrome. That’s still a good option, but this week I found a Chromebook-compatible screencast…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Personalize Your Google Profile Icon
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Personalize Your Google Profile Icon

When your school issues you a new Google Apps for Education account your profile picture will just be a simple letter icon featuring your first initial. Likewise, if you create a new Gmail account you will have just a standard initial icon. Many people leave it that way only because they don’t know how easy…

Join Me This Summer for Hands-on Professional Development

Join Me This Summer for Hands-on Professional Development

The highlight of my last three summers has been hosting the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp. This summer I’m hosting two of these events. Discounted early registration and discounted early group registration is available until the end of the month. Contact me for information on group rates  by emailing richardbyrne (at) freetech4teachers.com The Practical Ed Tech…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Self-paced Review Quizzes on Quizzy
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – Create Self-paced Review Quizzes on Quizzy

Quizzy is a free tool that allows you to quickly create and publish self-paced review quizzes for your students. The nice thing about Quizzy is that your students don’t need to create usernames and passwords to take your practice quizzes. The downside to that is you don’t have a good way to see which students…

Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 5 Good Tools for Creating Audio Recordings Online
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Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week – 5 Good Tools for Creating Audio Recordings Online

One of my favorite blogging activities to do with students doesn’t involve writing. Creating and sharing short audio recordings can be a great way to have students reflect on what they’ve observed and learned in your classroom. Those recordings can then be posted in your classroom blog.  Another take on this exercise is to have…